e clearly justified. He was fighting for the civil rights of people of his own kind. I admire that man greatly. He is a role model for people to come. Everyone could learn something from his position on violence. The violence was nonexistent.Another great man who justified civil disobedience was American writer, philosopher, and naturalist Henry David Thoreau. In 1846 he performed an act of civil disobedience by choosing to go to jail rather than to support the Mexican War (1846-1848) by paying his poll tax. He clarified his position in perhaps his most famous essay, "Resistance to Civil Government" (also known by the title "Civil Disobedience") written in 1849. Thoreau asserted that the United States government lacked moral authority because it condoned slavery, and he saw the Mexican War (1846-1848) as an attempt to extend slavery to the western United States. Thoreau believed that publicly disobeying the laws of an unjust government would bring other people to oppose that government's actions. "Resistance to Civil Government" inspired leaders of 20th-century resistance movements, such as Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi and American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. That shows what an important role Thoreau played if he inspired two of the greatest leaders ever.In all of these circumstances the persons involved have felt the need for civil disobedience. They feel like the given law was unjust. Therefore they are not going to obey it. A perfect example of this would be if the government banned a certain book. They stopped the circulation of it and said nobody was allowed to read it. If one wanted to disobey the law and perform civil disobedience, that person could get a group together or go alone and set out front of a government building and read that banned book. Voice your opinion on freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Civil disobedience is justified here because it is not right to ban a ...
